Six We Have Always Lived in the Castle Quotes That Mean More Thank You Think!

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Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:44 “What place would be better for us than this? Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people.”
02:17 “perhaps they came in darkness not to be recognised, as if each of them wanted to hide from the others, and bringing us food was somehow a shameful thing to do in public.”
4:53 “... whatever planned to be colourful lost its heart quickly in the village.” “It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant.”
6:50 “I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.” “And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.”
8:45 “We want you and Mary Katherine to come to our house until we can decide what to do with you.”
10:46 “I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.”



Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a fantastic text that is studied by students for VCE English in the Reading and Creating unit of study.

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